Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million ...

New research on mosasaurs, based on new technologies and fossil discoveries, sheds light on their evolution, feeding habits, ...

Paleontologists used UV fluorescence to find 50 Pterodactylus fossils, revealing their full family, from hatchlings to adults ...

Scientists from the University of Florida "Croc Docs" team are studying threatened American alligators to help assess the ...

Vulcan lizards live in volcanic lava fields at elevations of at least 5,600 feet, the study said. Researchers named the new ...

A newly discovered ichthyosaur skeleton in New Zealand, found by palaeontologist James Crampton in 2010, offers the most complete specimen of its kind in the region. This 98-million-year-old fossil ...

So far, the study indicates dinosaurs were capable of emitting sounds more complicated than the grunts and growls of modern reptiles. The discovery is “an important step to find how the ...

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million years ago, possibly from a crocodile-like ancestor, to resemble fish and ...

“These lizards typically take shelter among the ... Mariana Morando and Luciano Javier Avila. “This discovery builds on decades of research by the Patagonian Herpetology Group,” Vrdoljak ...